No one wants rat fur with rat meal, so have a blow torch handy for before cooking perpetration. 1.Take all rats and with a smoking gun, smoker or cold smoker, smoke the rats with hickory until they have a smokey flavor.2. Season the rats with salt and pepper. Line the rats on a grate with a sheet tray underneath.3. Set the oven to 280 degrees, place the rats in the oven and cook for three hours, or until rats are crispy on the outside.4. Let the rats cool, and then pull the meat off of the bodies into bite size pieces. 5. Serve meat at room temperature.